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15 Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, pp. 299-301.
16 Eden to Whiskard, 4 February 1940, DO35/1003/3/43; Churchill to Curtin, 21 March 1942, PREM3/206/1-3; ibid., Curtin to Churchill, 22 March 1942; 'Australia and the Empire', The Times, 24 March 1942; minute by Machtig, 19 February 1943, DO35/1896/213/3; A. J. Stockwell, 'The Audit of War', History Today (March 2006), pp. 52-3; Arnold L. Haskell, The Dominions -Partnership or Rift (London, 1943), pp. 5-32; Jeffrey Grey, 'Australia and Allied Relations in the Post-War Period, 1945-1972', Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire (No. 72, 1990), p. 168.
17 Ritchie Diary, 18 March 1941, Siren Years, p. 96; 'We Remain in Commonwealth after War', Daily Chronicle, 23 June 1942 .
18 'South Africa: Notes for Lecturers', War Office, 25 February 1942, FO371/34088.
19 'Empire and the War', November 1939, DO35/99/24/3; Harlech to Attlee, 20 July 1942, FO954/4B; Gann, 'South Africa and the Third Reich', p. 518; Smuts to Theron, 21 July 1942, Smuts Papers; Grundlingh, The King's Afrikaners, p. 354; Annette Seegers, The Military in the Making of Modern South Africa (London, 1996), pp. 58-9.
20 Batterbee to Machtig, 21 December 1941, DO121/116; Cranborne to Churchill, 2 February 1942, PREM3/150/2; 'Notes on New Zealand's War Effort and Future Participation in Pacific War', 5 May 1944, DO35/1631; by the 28 November 1945 final casualty figures stood at 9,334 dead and 27,413 wounded. This compares with 16,302 dead and 41,702 wounded during the Great War—'British Empire War Casualties', CAB106/305.
21 'Recall Without Repining', W. G. Stevens Papers, p. 217.
22 Arnold Toynbee, 'The British Commonwealth' in Toynbee and Ashton-Gwatkin (eds), Survey of International Affairs 1939-1946, pp. 28-9.
23 Lawrence James, 'Nailing the Lie of the Evil Empire', The Sunday Times, 18 June 2006; a provocative account of the British response to the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s was condemned by the renowned reviewer who described its author as an 'heir of the war of independence and schooled to believe that all empires are intrinsically evil'.
24 Nicholas Mansergh (ed.), The Constitutional Relations between Britain and India: The Transfer of Power, 1942-1947 (London, 1971), p. 253.
25 'Sub-Committee 1 on American Opinion, Preliminary Report', 27 January 1943, FO371/34086; minute by Attlee to Churchill, 16 June 1942, DO121/10B; Mansergh, The Commonwealth and the Nations, pp. 66-75.
26 A. Duff Cooper, 'The Future Development of the British Empire' (12 January 1943), United Empire (Vol. 34, No. 2), p. 33; Howe, Have We Bonds, p. 245.
27 For an excellent review see Niall Ferguson, 'Hegemony or Empire?', Foreign Affairs (September/ October 2003), pp. 154-61.
28 Heinlein, British Government Policy and Decolonisation, p. 11-12; 'A Record of Great Achievement', The Commonwealth and Empire Review (Vol. 79, No. 513; June-August 1945), p. 20; Ovendale, English Speaking Alliance, pp. 17-18; David Sanders, Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (London, 1990), pp. 47-9.
29 'British Empire War Casualties', Cohen to Brigadier General Edmonds, 7 June 1945, CAB106/305; Glen St J. Barclay, The Empire is Marching (London, 1976), pp. 214, 217.
30 Francine McKenzie, 'In the National Interest: Dominions' Support for Britain and the Commonwealth after the Second World War', The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 34, No. 4; December 2006), pp. 553-76; John Gallagher, The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire, pp. 143-8; Ritchie Ovendale, The English-Speaking Alliance: Britain, the United States, the Dominions and the Cold War 1945-1951, pp. 17-25; D. K. Fieldhouse, 'The Labour Governments and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1945-1951' in Ritchie Ovendale, The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Governments, 1945-1951 (Leicester, 1984), pp. 83-120; Heinlein, British Government Policy and Decolonisation, pp. 8, 64-7, 72-3; Eugene P. Chase, 'Government by